Trends · data through July 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Manchester

Iceflower tracks 684 stores from 601 leisure & travel chains in Manchester. Holiday Inn Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Holiday Inn and Travelodge.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
601
Tracked stores
684
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked leisure & travel chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Holiday Inn Express and Holiday Inn sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Holiday Inn Express - +16.5%
2 H Holiday Inn logo Holiday Inn - +14.5%
3 T Travelodge logo Travelodge ▲2 +14.5%
4 T Tenpin logo Tenpin ▼1 +0.8%
5 T The Midland - +0.4%
6 O Odeon - -1.5%
7 M Manchester Airport - -5.9%
8 W William Hill logo William Hill - -6.4%
9 P Premier Inn - -9.3%
10 C Cineworld ▼1 -11.0%
11 T TheLight - -14.3%

Store footprint

Store map

684 tracked store locations in Manchester, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 P Premier Inn 16
  • 2 W William Hill logo William Hill 16
  • 3 G Grosvenor Casino 6
  • 4 T Travelodge logo Travelodge 5
  • 5 V Vue 5
  • 6 O Odeon 5
  • 7 T Tenpin logo Tenpin 4
  • 8 M Manchester Airport 4
  • 9 H Holiday Inn logo Holiday Inn 4
  • 10 T TheLight 3
  • 11 H Hollywood Bowl logo Hollywood Bowl 3
  • 12 C Club 3000 Bingo 3
  • 13 P Powerleague 3
  • 14 T The Midland 3
  • 15 C Cineworld 3
  • 16 H Holiday Inn Express 3
  • 17 N Network Rail 2
  • 18 H Hotel Football 2
  • 19 T TfGM Travelshop 2
  • 20 T Tatton Park 2
  • 21 4 42nd Street 2
  • 22 V Village Hotel 2
  • 23 M Manchester 2
  • 24 B Bask 2
  • 25 T Trafford Park 2
  • 26 L Laser Quest 2
  • 27 R Radisson Blu 1
  • 28 M Mecca Bingo 1
  • 29 B B.E.C Arena 1
  • 30 O O2 Apollo Manchester 1
  • 31 K K2 Karaoke 1
  • 32 C Coop Live Apartment 1
  • 33 L Lynx Taxis 1
  • 34 A Atherton Railway Station 1
  • 35 8 82 King Street 1
  • 36 S Shaw 1
  • 37 T Torkington Park 1
  • 38 A Alderley Edge railway station 1
  • 39 M Macclesfield FC 1
  • 40 R Regent Park Golf Course 1
  • 41 H Holiday Inn - the niu, Loom Manchester North 1
  • 42 H Home 1
  • 43 M Middlebrook 1
  • 44 T Trans Pennine Trail 1
  • 45 T The Ryles Arms 1
  • 46 G Graystone Action Sports 1
  • 47 M Moto Knutsford Services 1
  • 48 A Alexandra Park Oldham 1
  • 49 S Science and Industry Museum 1
  • 50 C Clone Zone 1

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